COLUTEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Colutea mean? 

• COLUTEA (noun)
  The noun COLUTEA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods

  Familiarity information: COLUTEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLUTEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of Eurasian shrubs with yellow flowers and bladdery pods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Colutea; genus Colutea

Hypernyms ("Colutea" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Colutea"):

bladder senna; Colutea arborescens (yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food)

Holonyms ("Colutea" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)